“This weekend there will be some of the most serious and hot conditions we’ve ever seen,” said David Hondula, chief heat officer for the City of Phoenix Hondula
Charles Sanders, 59, brings ice to his tent inside the homeless encampment called"The Zone", on Pheonix, Arizona, on July 14, 2023.PHOENIX — A dangerous heat wave threatened a wide swath of the Southwest with potentially deadly temperatures in the triple digits on Saturday as some cooling centers planned to extend their hours and emergency rooms prepared to treat more people will heat-related illnesses.
About 200 hydration stations distributing bottles of water and cooling centers where thousands of people can rest in air conditioned spaces opened Saturday morning in public spaces like libraries, churches and businesses around the Phoenix metro area. “I’ve been here for four summers now and it’s the worst so far,” said Sanders, a former welder originally from Denver.
He said just one location, the Brian Garcia Welcome Center for homeless people in downtown Phoenix, planned to be open 24 hours and direct people to shelters and other air conditioned spaces for the night. During especially hot spells in some past years, the Phoenix Convention Center has opened as a nighttime cooling center, but Hondula said he had not heard of that possibility this year.
Emergency room doctors in Las Vegas have been treating more people for heat illness as the heat wave threatened to break the city’s all-time record high of 117 degrees Fahrenheit this weekend.
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